Yosemite!

Where do we start? This was quite a trip. We created a list of the events and want to share them...and a couple of pictures with you.

Yosemite Memories

• Bridget calling Yosemite, "Museminy" :-)
• Squirrels in the cafeteria
• Eating overpriced breakfasts in the Curry Village amphitheater while looking at the Royal Arches
• Our dinner at the Mountain Room in Yosemite Lodge on night 1
• Hearing 100 languages and accents


• Getting pushed off a bus at Curry Village because it was too full
• Olivia wiping her boogers on everything!
• Abby and Olivia knitting in the car and Olivia periodically calling out, "Surgery!!" when she needed help from Abby
• Losing the brush, finding the brush, losing the brush...
• Having the girls call varmints, "vomits"
• Taking 170 pictures (most of the back of your head or your hand)
• Eric planning and organizing the trip (thank you!!), laying out our well planned itinerary and sharing rich Yosemite history throughout ourvisit
• Eric's patience and compassion for traveling with 4 females
• Rockslide in Yosemite the night before our trip; getting a call to notify us of moving to a tent cabin
• Going to Pancake Circus before leaving Sacramento
• Bridget whining "Are we there yet?" the entire 2/3 of the way to Yosemite
• Abby and Olivia saying, "No, we're not there yet!"
• Missing the turn to Hwy 120 (we drove past Ripon and into Modesto before turning around)
• Driving the minivan on Old Priest Grade - what power!
• Seeing a bear in Crane Flat on the way to Curry Village
• Going to Bridalveil Falls on the way to Curry Village
• The huge line at Curry Village Check In
• Our tent cabin across from the bathrooms, the bear lockers and the huge (fun) rock
• Night noises around us in the tent: 6 people snoring loudly in various tents, hearing the "whoosh!" of the toilets and "whirr!" of the hand dryers in the bathroom at all hours
• Bridget, Abby, and Olivia climbing on the rock at every free moment
• Getting "varmitized" (vermitized?) several times a day
• Taking the girls to the bathroom during meals... and trying to have an appetite for food upon return
• Big Abby's fever the entire trip!
• Climbing on the rocks up to Lower Yosemite Falls
• $4 apple juice at the Ahwahnee, hanging out there
• Our 5 minute trip to the unheated pool
• Singing songs at the campfire, roasting marshmallows, shaking plastic mariachi veggies
• Our 25 minute wait in the dark for the post campfire shuttle
• Glo sticks hanging from the tent on Night 2 and 3
• Seeing Natalie, Gus and their family
• Meeting Jenna's family
• Little Abby's amazing hiking and climbing ability
• Our 5 hour hike to Vernal Falls!!! (words of encouragement from: a 90 year old, a woman with a neck brace, a man with broken bones, getting dirty, smelling mule poop, big Abby falling 3 times, little Abby going ahead of the group the entire hike, Eric hauling the girls on his shoulders the entire time, the girls' endless amount of energy post hike)
• Olivia getting traumatized by mule poop and saying "That's dis-gust-ing!" over and over on the mule trail

• A 4.6 earthquake on Night 2... and no one in the tent woke up except big Abby

• Abby, Bridget, and Olivia showering in 1 stall, 2 nights in a row; Olivia happily using gobs and gobs of shower gel
• Bridget whining about wanting souvenir pennies
• Bridget and Olivia bickering, apologizing, and hugging all in a span of 30 seconds then incident quickly forgotten
• Bridget saying, "My tummy hurts!" at every meal
• No TV, cell phone, or internet service during our entire visit, and we did not miss it at all
• Watching the temperature climb to 104 as we drove back to Sacramento
• Olivia saying "Can we have a sleepover at Bridget's?" upon arrival back home